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Ho, ho, ho! Hello friends, Greg here.

I hope you're having a lovely Christmas season and a great new year is on the horizon for you.

I just thought I'd pop in here to remind you of our lovely Christmas specials from the

back catalogue. We've got three, of course, to enjoy. If you scroll down in the feed,

the first one you'll find is the radio edit of Christmas with Charles Dickens.

A bit further down, you'll find the full-length podcast version.

Our guest there were Dr Emily Bell and, of course, Mike Wozniak.

It's a lovely one.

Dickens may be part of the reason that our idealised Christmas is snowy. And it was so icy during Dickens's early years that the River Thames froze in February of 1814 and London celebrated its final Thames Frost Fair that

year. So what they would do is roll out tents and vendors onto the ice, do drinking, dancing,

bowling and there was even an elephant being led across the river

just below Blackfriars Bridge.

An elephant walking on ice, Mike. Imagine the insurance forms. You have to fill in for that.

The health and safety risk assessment.

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